Strainer attachment for kettles



` M.SCHAEFER STRAINER ATTACHMENT" FOR KETTLES Sept. 7, 1937.

Filed Nov. 13, 1936 INVENTOR, Marguvee Se aufm,

mal.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 7, 1937 UNITED STATES STRAINER ATTACHMENT FOR KETTLES Marguerite Schaefer,

Muralto, near Locarno,

Switzerland Application Nnvemter 13, 1936, serial No.11o,614

` Claims.

This invention relates to culinary utensils and it has for itsobject to provide a strainer device which may be removably attached to the side wall of any pot, kettle or other vessel and have its .5t strainer shiftable to either of two positions, to

wit, to the position for straining the contents of the vessel when poured therefrom and to a position over the vessel sothat the drippings from the strainer proper may return to the vessel.

In the drawing,

Fig. lis a side elevation of the device attached to a vessel, which isshown fragmentarily and in section; 'Y Y Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device when viewed from the left in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a plan of the device, with a fragment of the side wall of the vessel shown by broken lines;

Fig. 4 shows in side elevation the device attached to the Vessel and in the position for straining the contents of the latter; and

Fig. 5 is a plan of a modification of the support.

In said drawing I is a semi-spherical strainer proper of conventional type. Embracing this is preferably a split ring 2 of wire having opposite trunnions 3. So much forms what I term the strainer, the same having bearings which in the present instance are constituted by the trunnions. I prefer to equip the strainer proper with the ring 2 so that the strainer proper may be removed and also so that `a strainer proper of perhaps slightly different diameter may be used, the ring being somewhat elastic for this purpose. The bearings are engaged, as will appear, by portions of the structure for supporting the strainer so that the latter may undergo pivotal movement on its supporting means.

Said supporting structure is constructed as follows:

A support in the form of an upright is formed by a length of wire.' The mid portion 4 of this wire has the general form shown in Fig. 3, or in plan arcuate. Each extremity thereof is bent upward, being for a part of such length thereof straight, as at 5, then bent inward and back, `as at 6, then outward and back in a curve, as at 1; it is then bent outward to form seats or stops at 8 and an intermediate upstanding eye 9; and nally it is bent downward, such downwardly extending portion being bent inward and back in a curve, as .at I0, then outward and back, as at Il, and then extending straight downward, as at l2, except at its terminus, which is bent outward and back as at I3. The portions 6 and (on 21o-155) Il `on the one hand and 'I and l0 on the other are' of the same vertical extent and since portions of the wire cross each other at I4 a rest is there formed. There is connected to the support pivoted carrier means to which the strainer is pivotally connected. This in the present example consists of a pair of wire arms I5. Each arm has one end bent to form an eye I5a arranged in al horizontal plane and engaged with one of the eyes 9 and the other end here bent in a vertical plane to form a bearing in the shape of an eye |5b which receives one of the trunnions 3 of the strainer.

The device is assembled with the vessel in the manner shown or so that the forked portions orV its supporting means (afforded by the portions 5-I2 of the support) straddle and clamp the side of the vessel, the rests or abutments i4 engaging the rim of the latter and thereby limite ing its downward displacement. When thus .assembled with the vessel the described supporting means may be swung on its horizontal axis at 9 to either of two positions, to wit, where the arms I5 project outwardly and engage the seats 8 or where they project inwardly and engage said seats, thus in both positions supporting the strainer clear of the side wall of the vessel, said arms having suicient length to permit the strainer to clear the rim of the vessel during movement from one to the other of said positions. In the movement from the one to the other of such positions the strainer may be maintained by gravity in depending relation to the arms, it being free to turn around the horizontal axis of its bearings 3 for this purpose.

Fig. 4 shows the parts in the first of these positions or when the device is acting to strain the contents of the vessel a. The other figures show the parts in the second position, or where any drippings from the strainer will be returned to the vessel.

To attach the support to the vessel or remove it therefrom it may be grasped at the inward bend 4a in its mid-portion 4.

According to the construction shown by Fig. 5 the mid-portion of the support 4x, when the forks of the support straddle the side wall of the vessel, ,are arranged to come at the outside of said wall, in which case the bend (4:11) is outward.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. A strainer device including a strainer and supporting structure therefor comprising an upright to be affixed to a vessel and carrier means having the strainer pivoted thereto on a hori- Zontal axis, being itself pivoted to the upright on an axis paralleling the first axis, and being movable around and over the second-named axis in each direction, said upright having upwardly facing portions to limit the movement of the carrier means in each direction.

2. A strainer device including a strainer and supporting structure therefor comprising an upright having downwardly open and spaced forked portions to straddle. the side wall of a vessel and carrier means having the strainer pivoted thereto on a horizontal axis, being itself pivoted to the upright on an axis paralleling the rst axis, and being movable around and over the second-named axis in each direction, said upright having upwardly facing portions to limit the movement of the carrier means in each direction.

3. A strainer device including a strainer and supporting structure therefor comprising an upright, said upright being formed of a length of Wire providing a mid-portion and having its extremities bent to provide downwardly open and spaced forked portions to straddle the side walls of a vessel and carrier means having the strainer pivoted thereto on a horizontal axis, being itself pivoted to the upright on an axis paralleling the rst axis, and being movable around and over the second-named axis in each direction, said upright having upwardly facing portions to limit the movement of the carrier means in each direction.

4. A strainer device including a strainer and supporting structure therefor comprising an upright to be aflixed to a vessel and carrier means having the strainer pivoted thereto on a hori- Zontal axis, being itself pivoted to the upright on an axis paralleling the rst axis, and being movable around and over the second-named axis in each direction, said upright having an upwardly facing portion to limit the movement of the carrier means in the relatively inward direction.

5. A strainer device including a strainer and supporting structure therefor comprising an upright to be ailxed to a vessel and carrier means having the strainer pivoted thereto on a horizontal axis, being itself pivoted to the upright on an axis paralleling the rst axis, and being movable around and over the second-named axis in each direction, said upright having an upwardly facing portion to limit the movement of the carrier means in the relatively outward di- 25 

